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Page 24
The buildings , their windows dark , barely showed against the dark sky . Gunfire
flashed without a break and bullets sang in various keys , screeching , whistling ,
or oddly clacking , as though turning somersaults in the air . I tried to make out ...
The buildings , their windows dark , barely showed against the dark sky . Gunfire
flashed without a break and bullets sang in various keys , screeching , whistling ,
or oddly clacking , as though turning somersaults in the air . I tried to make out ...
Page 176
I spoke into the darkness . ' It ' s a pogrom , ' Amalia answered unexpectedly from
behind ... Then , from the dead stillness of the dark house , came a woman ' s
terrifying , despairing shriek . She had no other weapon with which to protect her
...
I spoke into the darkness . ' It ' s a pogrom , ' Amalia answered unexpectedly from
behind ... Then , from the dead stillness of the dark house , came a woman ' s
terrifying , despairing shriek . She had no other weapon with which to protect her
...
Page 212
I couldn ' t see it in the dark , but I knew the rough stone surface must offer
footholds . ' Over the wall , quick , ' I whispered to Yasha . ' In one go . It ' s our last
chance . We ' ve nothing to lose . I was thin and slight - it was easy for me to climb
...
I couldn ' t see it in the dark , but I knew the rough stone surface must offer
footholds . ' Over the wall , quick , ' I whispered to Yasha . ' In one go . It ' s our last
chance . We ' ve nothing to lose . I was thin and slight - it was easy for me to climb
...
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| Title | Story of a Life: In that dawn Volume 3 of Story of a Life, Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Author | Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Publisher | Harvill P., 1965 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Jul 2007 |
| ISBN | 0002717565, 9780002717564 |
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